I've seen people playing Civ V and Borderlands 2 on it. So I think so as well; however, I was hoping someone may have actually tried it.
@maxpowerz got PA running well on the Surface Pro 2 so yeah it will work You'll probably need to be on low graphics settings however to account for the weak integrated gpu, also make sure you get the version with 8gb of ram if you can. For comparison I run PA quite well on my old Core i5 460m laptop (dual core + HT) with 8gb of ram and a geforce GT 420m gpu. That is running at 1366 x 768 resolution native, with all graphics options (except resolution scaling) on low. The 420m is probably similar in performance to Intel's HD 4600 igp these days, and the modern low power processors are probably faster than my first gen i5 cpu.
Yes it does... so in theory they could port the PA engine to the upcoming 'Vulkan' API which is supposed to have capabilities similar to DX12. That said I think they've already confirmed this isn't going to happen for vanilla PA (although the engine could well get ported at a later date for a future title).
Thanks guys for all of your input. Now I know if I decide to get one I can play PA on it if I so desire. Cheers
My Improve FPS thread is based off playing the game on a Acer Iconia W700 (Surface 2 pro clone). I5 3317u, Intel hd4000, 4gb ram. 128gb SSD. https://forums.uberent.com/threads/how-to-improve-performance-all-video-cards-driver-links.53165/ Things to avoid.. Don't use the stylus (Especially if you update the drivers so you can use it's pressure sensitivity in Photoshop and GIMP) it eats up a lot of CPU cycles handling the touch pressure and badly affects performance. Edit.. Remember to squeeze the most performance out of the PA engine, set your desktop to a lower resolution in windows.. (the game uses the native windows resolution in full-screen, meaning the game runs at whatever resolution the windows desktop is set too...) Example.. set windows resolution to 1280x720 (the minimum the game needs to function properly) And then load and play PA, it will improve performance better than only using the resolution adjustment in the game engine.
Or you could just downsample. Or a even a better idea is to use steam in home streaming, play GTA V on your surface pro 3
Until someone turns on a microwave oven and disrupts the stream lol. Seriously WiFi is about the most overstated thing in history. It's fine for viewing web pages but game streaming needs a wired internet connection in my experience
WiFi has always been fine in my experience, never noticed any sort of disruption from the microwave (or anything else for that matter).
Depends on what your doing with it... game streaming on standard WiFi isn't pleasant. I haven't tried it with a 5ghz router yet though.
I did it a few times, my problem wasn't the wifi - it was residential upload speeds, streaming on 6mbps upload isn't pleasant - wired or wireless.
If your streaming in the same house (eg from your pc to a tablet using steam) then you w.a.n. doesn't effect the performance at all, it's purely down to your local WiFi which should run 1:1 up / down.
